Paine Wingate

Paine Wingate (14 May 1739-7 March 1838) was a US Senator from New Hampshire from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1793, preceding Samuel Livermore, as well as a member of the US House of Representatives from New Hampshire's at-large district from 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1795, preceding Abiel Foster. He was a Federalist Party member.

Biography
Paine Wingate was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1739, and he worked as a Congregationalist pastor in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire before becoming a farmer in 1776. He was elected to several terms in the State House of Representatives, and he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1781. In 1788, he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and he was one of New Hampshire's inaugural US Senators, serving from 1789 to 1793; he then continued his US Congress service in the US House of Representatives. From 1798 to 1808, he was an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, and, with the death of James Madison in 1836, he was the last surviving member of the original US Senate and one of the two remaining members of the Continental Congress (alongside John Armstrong, Jr.). He died in 1838.